67On the duty to state reasons, the Court has consistently held that, in the particular context of the preparation of decisions relating to the clearance of accounts, the statement of reasons for a decision must be regarded as sufficient if the Member State to which the decision was addressed was sufficiently involved in the process by which the decision came about and was aware of the reasons for which the Commission took the view that it must not charge the sum in dispute to the EAGGF (Case C-242/97 Belgium v Commission [2000] ECR I-3421, paragraph 95, and Case C-118/99 France v Commission [2002] ECR I-747, paragraph 54).
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